Title taken from caption. The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Ariadne tied up at the dock at Kanaga Island. Photograph taken from the hills above the Kanaga Trading Company's buildings during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to...

Title taken from caption. View of expedition members walking along a path on Kagamil Island. From left to right: William Laughlin, William Clemes, Harold Cowper, and the Ariadne's photographer. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian...

Title taken from caption. View of sailors from the Ariadne gathered in the Alaska Commercial Company's store in Dutch Harbor. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.

Title taken from caption. In front of the church at Nikolskoye village, Bering Island. According to Alan May's journal, he later discovered that this was not Bering's grave but a monument to Bering erected 150 years after his death. May also notes...

Title taken from caption. View of a driftwood and whalebone fence overlying a portion of a cave's entrance. Photograph taken during the 1937 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.

Title taken from caption. Dr. Hrdlicka looks on while Lt. Lazerof, a Soviet officer, tries to read the inscription on the cross marking Vitus Bering's grave. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to...

Title taken from caption. From verso: "Larson’s Bay: Dr. H. and the major seen thru bug nets, uncovering a fireplace, June 9." View of Ales Hrdlicka and Alan May cleaning out a fireplace. Both men are wearing head netting, and May is smoking a...

Title taken from caption. From verso: "Uyak 1936, the “gang”." From May's journal, dated May 24th: "Today the Doctor spent quite a time taking pictures of the "gang", - we should look pretty tough as none of us have shaved since arriving...

Title taken from caption. From verso: "May, photographing our cache of chipped knives, June 8th." View of Alan May photographing a set of six chipped knives. He is using a tripod and wearing a heat net. From May's journal, dated June 8th: "The...

Title taken from caption. From May's journal, dated June 1st: "Amother [sic] beautiful day, delightfully warm and was able to work all day stripped to the waist."--p. 39. View of Alan May shoveling dirt into a wheelbarrow, with a shovel and pickaxe...

Title taken from caption. From verso: "Log of the Smithsonian: walking it, with overland freight, the Major-- toward fisherman houses and the wooden Barabra-- Kodiak Island." View of Alan May carrying supplies to the expedition site. Photograph...

Title taken from caption. View of Alan May excavating a site. He is holding a brush and there is a wooden specimen tray in the foreground. Photograph taken during the 1936 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.

Title taken from caption. View of man wearing an apron walking across the deck of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Northland. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.